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By Ontario Sports Review
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After the first golf balls had been made of wood, but would restrict a balls flight; balls known as the feathery were made by boiling feathers to soften them and shoving them through a small hole in a leathery shell and then hammering them into a sphere. The process, however, was very time consuming and expensive, with a skilled craftsman only producing 3 or 4 a day. Without any alternative, this process lasted nearly 400 years until the Gutta Percha around 1850 which were made from a sap found in trees in Malaysia. The gum could be softened in hot water, molded into a perfect sphere and would run truer. They could also be manufactured much quicker, however, they still had a problem with flight. It was found over time though, that the ball would fly further once it had been used enough and dented, thereby giving way to the concept of dimples. At the turn of the century, Coburn Haskell invented the soft core elastic wound ball. After Alexander Herd won the 1902 British Open using the new ball, it became an overnight success. Nowadays, wound balls have recently been switched to solid cores and the evolution continues. The only thing that remains consistence between golf balls, is the mandatory 1.68” in diameter.
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